[HN Gopher] Christmas shopping the IBM way: computerized gift se...
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       Christmas shopping the IBM way: computerized gift selection in 1962
        
       Author : picture
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2021-12-25 21:49 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | Something1234 wrote:
       | So is the source code available?
        
         | tyingq wrote:
         | The problem is described as the customer answering basically 5
         | different criteria (age range, gender, interests, category,
         | price range) about the gift recipient, and the computer returns
         | a list of 10 gifts.
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         | Based on the description of the problem being solved, I'd guess
         | they would have used "FARGO", a sort of report generation
         | language, which probably had some predefined way to "AND" those
         | criteria together and print out 10 matches.
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         | http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/1401/C24-1464-3_1401_fargo.pdf
        
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